GRAIL, or Grayle, The Holy (Saint Graal, Seynt Greal, Sangreal, Sank Ryal.) -- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition

GRAIL, or Grayle, The Holy (Saint Graal, Seynt Greal, Sangreal, Sank Ryal.) The correct spelling is "Graal." -- Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ninth Edition, ca. 1880


while searching for
whilst questing
amid looking

for this vessel
or shallow bowl
this dish
or cup

looking for the muchlookedfor
the highly sought

art-i-fact

greatly desired bloodbowl
a lamb's tiny bloodbath

the metropolis of wanting
megalopolis of desire

wonderworking vessel of legendary desire

the way of the chosen
chosen by oracular legend
sustenance of searching
subsequent searching

whilst looking for the looking for the looking for the looking

desirous of desire of desirousness
locked in a cult of desire

while searching for
direction

this quest
for this

object

came along
with an offer
of a quest with no end in sight

an occupation of preoccupation with desire
swilled from an ambiguous vessel
trilled to a darkening sky